Gavin O’Hara

Hatching a plan to replace banned pronouns with dangerous nouns that speak in code

The slooooow-motion RIP of 60 Minutes continues

Respect to Tiniwaren, Dua Saleh, Crooked Fingers and Courtney Barnett but my favorite Ghanaian-Aussie artist @genesisowusu.bsky.social just put out the album of the year. Total stunner and a real in-the-moment achievement. Thank you for capturing a nearly uncapturable moment.

Today's Headlines The Strait is open/closed. There is/isn't a ceasefire. A guy mismanaged a thing because sex/money/booze. Someone was briefly reprimanded for something they should've been jailed for. A religion was used to justify something somewhere. Iggy Pop turned 79.

Literally murdering a big piece of my childhood

One of my all-time favorite players - congrats to UNC & USWNT legend Crystal Dunn on an incredible career.

"Silicon Valley used to believe it could change the world. Now it just hopes the world won’t change its stock price." -- Journalist Om Malik after Apple CEO Tim Cook attended a VIP screening of "Melania" hours after the Alex Pretti execution

MLK no KKK no ICE no fascism no more cruelty repeat

Coming May 8 - not kidding.

Love ya, Durham

A @themountaingoats.bsky.social performance for the ages. Band on fire and John seems to have unlocked a portal that helps him shoe-horn a novel into a pop song. Speechless.

Great Guardian piece on some shocking dollar store shenanigans (co-written by Durham journo legend Barry Yeoman)

Putin 2026 wall calendar. You're welcome.

Breaking news: Pre**dent T**mp reacts to last night's Dem victories with deep and insightful comment... “We had an interesting evening, and we learned a lot, and we’re going to talk about that.”

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

IYKYK

Hey NC lovers of art or people or community or meaningful life experiences marked by kindness and camaraderie: I dare you to get as excited as I am about this upcoming art show at @peelgallery.bsky.social in Carrboro Please report back if you do indeed get that excited so I can log it. Thx

Doritos don't kill people - guns do

Because figuratively tearing down the White House wasn't enough

Autumn in Chicago

Some early MIA vibes (and appropos MySpace visuals) on this new banger from Sylvan Esso

My easygoing free country full of so many freedoms

Bakar is everything

Durham Pride this weekend. Taking a moment to recognize the horrors & sacrifices so many people endured to drag us forward from our natural resting neanderthal state. Good to live in a place with a history of kindness, compassion, tolerance and occasional heroism.

Warped information here, warped information there. Trust nowhere. We are living in a truth desert.

China gets serious

Hero

I know what you're reading the most about this morning but I just wanted to add this to the mix

Happy 55th birthday to Neko Case, to my ears the single greatest artist of this century. I kid you not. Sorry Ye. Sorry rebooted Silverchair.

Maybe the world isn’t ending after all. Med Deli to reopen next Tuesday.

The only thing better than dissent is dissent laced with absurdist mockery - Qi Hong following in the footsteps of Ai Weiwei

Good news for Durham film (and community) lovers

Important journalism here: the 50 best dive bars in America huckberry.com/journal/post...

Make Cooperation Cool Again I will give you one chicken for some Serge Gainsbourg vinyl

Fun read for #USWNT fans - love seeing former Tar Heels Ally Sentnor and Avery Patterson getting their due and can't WAIT to watch Lily Yohannes dominate for the next 15 years. So much talent.

Now we’ve got a game! Former UNC striker Alessia Russo with a gorgeous header to equalize for England vs Spain. Having said that, go Spain! #weuro

A little revisionist but 60 years ago today Bob Dylan invented punk rock by giving the people exactly what they didn't want and rubbing their noses in his genius.

“We’ve lost decency, we’ve lost civility, we’ve lost respect for the rule of law." Jeff Daniels is Will McAvoy in real life.

Guilty as charged

RIP Connie Francis

You'll never guess where we're deporting people to now. Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) is the last absolute monarchy in Africa. Fat, happy ruler King Mswati III has a less-than-stellar record on human rights. Kinda like us right now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It just occurred to me that building aura and boosting stoke might be one and the same.